Record printing plate for addressing machines



Feb. 6, 1940 H, ELLIOTT 2,189,104

RECORD PRINTING PLATE FOR ADDRESS ING MACHINES Original Filed April 18, 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet, 1

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MAIN $1 Bos'roN .T2 MIAH lot 5,9 IOI Patented Feb. 6, 1940 Rnooan PRINTING PLATE FOR ADDRESS- *ING MACHINES m Harmon 1". Elliott, Watertown. Mass. Original application April 18,1936, Serial No.

Divided and this application 22, 1938,'Serial No. 197,386

March 14 Claims. .(ci 101-57) This invention relates to printing machines and particularly to addressing machines wherein the address characters of the separate addresses are borne by a series of printing devices that arcadvanced successively into and out of a printing position. This application is a divisionof my copending application Serial No. 75,118, filed April 18, 1936. l y

.In my copending application Serial No. 69,803; filed March 20, 1936, I have disclosed and claimed 1 broadly a machine operative upon a series of printing devices to record on record sheets the addresses borne by the printing devices together with selected items of statistical information pertinentto the addresses. The mechanism of said application has address recording means and-. a plurality of statistical item recording means capable of formingindicia, as indentations, or perforations, in the record sheet in'positions denot- .ing predetermined items of information The printing devices of said application, specifically having metal-type address characters and specifically a printing device comprising a metal frame are stencils having means such as perforations located in predetermined regions of saidstencil indicating selected statistical items and operative to control the recording operation of the item recording means corresponding to the perforated regions. l i

It is an object of the present invention to pro-. vide for the recording of addresses and selected statistical items by the use of a printing device having a part provided with metal type characters that form the address and another part provided with means for effecting the recording of desired statistical items concurrently, or at some other time, if desired, with the recording of the address.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a printing device having address printing and statistical item printing means,.the printing device having a partprovided with address-forming metal type characters and another part adapted to receive a series of item indicating projections capable of forming an impressionon a record sheet,. the position of said item forming members denoting the nature of the item represented thereby. l

A further object is the provision of a printing machine capable of operating upon a succession ofprinting devices arranged as above. described for recording the addresses borne thereby and also forjrecording indiciacorresponding position on the record sheet with the item indicating means of the devices.

A yet further object is generally to improve the l which confront the opposite ends of the plate.

construction and extend the use of printing machines and printing devices.

Fig. 1 is a sectional view throughthe transverse middle of a printing machine forming the present invention;

Fig. 21 a detailed plan view urine printing bed of Fig. 1. a Fig. 3 .is a plan View. of one form of printing device cooperating with the machine of Fig. 1.

.Fig. 4 is an end view of the printing device of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a section taken alongline 5 -5 of Fig. 3

and illustrating the manner in which the printing device operates to record an item of statistical information,

Fig. 6 is a plan view of a modified form of printing device. i

a part of The metal printing. device forming a part of the present invention, in that modification illustrated in Fig. 3,comprises a generally rectangular fiat metal plate It forming the frame of the device and-havingon the under face thereof adjacent the opposite side edges a'pair of parallel ribs l8, see Fig. 4; which are adapted to be located in the grooves of a track formedor provided in the bed of the printing machineto guide the device for straight line movement into and out of printing position. l l

At the lower part ofthe face the plate there are provided two lines of. confronting channel forming members 20 havingparts overlying and l 40 cooperating therewith to form opposed channels spaced above the. face of the metal plate It and adapted slidably to receive a flat address bearing metal plate22 which rests upon the fiat face of l the frame plate [6 and hasits front and rear edges located in said channels. Said plate is a suitably embossed to form type characters 24 that The upper or back edge of the frame plate I6 is intermediate portion of the plateis formed with a series of short channel members 30 within which channel members 38 and 30 a paper card 32 formed with a long channel member 28 and the or the equivalent bearing the easily readable address 34 of the printing plate 22 is locatedremovably.

Between the address bearing card 32 and the address printing plate 22 the frame plate is formed with confronting channel members 36 and 38 in which a statistical plate 38 is removably retained by means including the spring urged catch 42 confronting one side edgeof the plate and abutments M confronting the other side edge of the plate. v

The plate 46 conveniently is made of metal, similar to the plate 22. The plate 40 is formed or provided with a plurality of spaces 36 arranged in horizontal and vertical rows by intersecting lines 48 which canbeprinted or otherwise formed on the plate and the spaces preferably are consecutively numbered by numerals 58. Each space also has a circular or other mark 52 for indicating the position of the statistical item recording member 5A. In the present instance this recording; member 54 is a projection embossed in the plate lf! and upstanding thereabove in the. plane of the tops of the address '.printing characters 2d and is intended to record 1 a dot on the record'sheet. I

The presence of a projection effects the operation of vtheprinting machine to record a mark on the record sheet in a position corresponding to the position of the projection. The position of the mark on the record sheet indicates the nature of the statistical item whichjcan be ascertained, if not known or remembered, by reference to a previously prepared code which can be printed on the record sheet. As herein shown spaces 12, 29 and 43 have projections 5 Hence indicia corresponding only to such projections will be recorded. The projections 54 are formed in the plate in a suitable manner and by suitable mechanism not important to the present invention.

In the modification illustrated in :Fig. 6 the frame plate, It is constructed as illustrated in Fig. 3, and has the address printing plate 22 and also the readable address bearing card 32. The frame plate also has a statistical item record controlling plate lila retainedin place like the plate 18 of Fig. 3 and having the spaces 56 corresponding to the, spaces id of Fig. 3. The plate iiiia, however, instead of having projections is adapted to receive perforations 58 in selected spaces, as the spaces i2, 29 and 43. The frame 9 plate 16 under each ofthe spaces 56 is provided with aprinting projection 59 but only the projections under perforations 58 are exposed for printing. The plate Mia, is made stiff enough so that it is not flexed by the printing pressure thereon to make a mark on the record sheet in register with those perforations which it conceals but yet is sufficiently flexible to bend under the printing pressure to permit an exposed projection 60 to pass through the perforation 53 and make a mark on the record sheet. The plate tea, for instance; can be a paper sheet of suitable thickness, such as cardboard or bristol board or a thinner metal sheet.

The record sheet adapted for cooperation with the printing devices of Figs. 3 and 6, can be a paper sheet 62, Fig. 9, having a printed or otherwise marked section E i corresponding to the similar sections of the plates 4!) and Mic but with the squares thereof numbered in the opposite di- 7 rection. That is to say, if the numbers of the horizontal.'columns of the printing devices run from -left' to rightthe numbers in the record sheet run from right to left since the face of the record sheet confronts the printing face of the printing device.

The item printing means 54, or 558, is adapted to make marks 66 on the section 64 in the squares.

corresponding to the squares of the printing devices in which the projections appear. The record sheet 62 also has a space for the address 68 recorded by the plates 22 and also can have a code table it] wherein the statistical items corresponding to the various sections of the part 6d are set forth so that when the section No. 29, for instance, bears a mark the reader of the record card will see that this No. 29 refers to a B-27 sander.

. The printing machine adapted for cooperation with the above described printing devices, is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, and comprises a frame 72 having means providing a pair of parallel grooves M in which the ribs 18 of the printing devices can slide,- thereby to guide successive lowermost printing devices to pass in a straight line from a vertical holder 76 through a printing position and into a sage l8.

A printing device, when in printing position, is located above and upon a solid bed 80 by which the printing device is supported to withstand the necessary pressure applied to it for recording the address and selected items of statistical information.

The printing machi'rieherein illustrated is manually operated although for the purposes of the present invention it is not important whether the machine is manually operated or is operated by power, this general type of machine being common in the art.

The machine includes a vertically movable stamper arm 82 fixed to a horizontal shaft 84 journalled in suitable brackets 86. The stamper arm carries a pair of resilient impression pads 88 and 90' movable downwardly with the stamper arm and cooperating respectively with the address printing plate 22 and with the statistical item plate 453 or iiia to press a record sheet 62 and ink ribbons 92 and 95 which overlie said plates into pressure contact. The operation thus records on the record sheet 62 an impression of the address characters 2d and an impression of the item printing projections 54 or 60 of the printing plates. The manner in which these impression pads operateto record the address and the item marks is illustrated in Figs. 5 and 7.

.In the modification illustrated in Fig. 6 the pressure exerted by the pad 98 on the plate 56 of Fig. 6 causes said plate to be pressed downwardly around a projection so that the projection passes through perforation 58 and is clogs d8 which are engageable with the'trailing edges of the successive printing devices to advance them during a forward stroke of the frame. The rearmost printing device is removed from the holder leand advanced by having its trailing edgeengaged withshoulders iflil of-the frame 96. The reciprocation of the frame is of suitable amplitude to move each pair of dogsrear- 'wardly from engagement with thetrailing edge of the next rearmost printing device. The frame is reciprocated by means including a recipro cat-' ing" arm i iii having a link connection with an discharge pas arm Hi4 carried by the shaft 84 and reciprocated conjointly with-the stamper arm 82. The machine as described is more or less common in the art. v

I claim:

1. A printing device for recording an address and statistical item indicia, said printing device comprising a frame having address printing characters and means providing a statistical item area adapted to receive printing characters in difierent predetermined zones thereof, and raised printing characters located in said area.

2. A printing device for recording an address and statistical item indicia, said printing device comprising a frame having address printing characters and means providing a statistical item area adapted to receive printing characters in different predetermined zones thereof; and raised printing characters located in said area, the spacing between the printing characters of contiguous zones being greater than the spacing between successive letters of the address.

3. A printing device for recording an address and statistical item indicia, said printing device comprising a frame having address printing characters and indicia mark formers located in positions on said device that determine the nature of the statistical item represented thereby.

4. A printing device for recording an address and statistical item indicia, comprising a frame having means providing address characters, a

statisticalitem printing plate carried by and having a detachable connection with said frame, said plate having a printing area adapted to receive printing characters in predetermined zones thereof denoting predetermined statistical items,

' and raised printing characters located in selected zones of the printing face of said plate.

5. A printing device for recording an address and statstical item indicia, said printing device comprising a metal printing frame, an address said frame and having raised address printing characters, a statistical item indicia printing plate carried detachably by said frame on the same face as said address bearing plate and having raised projections in pro-selected item indicating zones thereof correspondingto predetermined statistical items, and an address-receiving plate carried by said frame on the same face with said other plates.

.7. A printing device for recording an address and statistical item indicia comprising a metal lected characters.

frame plate having on one portion of a face thereof means providing address forming characters and on another portion of said face a plurality of indicia printing projections, and a plate carried by said frame overlying said projections and having perforation receiving zones aligned with said projections of said frame, any selected zones being adapted to receive perforations which expose theprojections thereunder for printing.

8. A printing device forrecording an address and statisticalitem indicia comprising a frame having means providing address forming characi t ers, a plate carried by said frame on the same face with said address forming characters, said plate having a plurality of perforation receiving zones, said frame having a corresponding pluralityof statistical printing projections located under and aligned with said zones, selected ones of said projections adapted to be exposed for printing by perforations in selected zones of said 9. A'printing device for recording an address and statistical item indicia, comprising a frame plate having identical raised printing characters disposed in locations the positions of which denote the nature of the statistical item corresponding thereto, and raised address printing characters.

10. A printing device for recording an address and statistical item indicia, comprising a frame plate having identical raised printing characters disposed in locations the positions of which denote the nature of. the statistical item corresponding thereto, raised addressprinting characters, and shielding means for'said first named printingcharacters having means to expose se 11. In a printing machine, a printing device having address printing characters and statistical item printing characters disposed in positions which denote the nature of the statistical items corresponding thereto, means for directly printing the address of the device, and means for directly printing an impression of statistical item printing characters of, the device.

12. A printing device for recording an address i providing'a statistical item area and statistical itemprinting characters located in said area.

' and statistical item data, said printing device 14. A printing device for recording an address a and statistical item data, said device comprising I-IARMON P. ELLIOTT. 

